Hard Believer

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Hard Believer
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Studio album by
Released14 July 2014 (2014-07-14)
RecordedNovember 2013 in Los Angeles
Length55:00
Label R'COUP'D, Ninja Tune
Producer Billy Bush
Fink chronology
Fink Meets the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
(2014)
Hard Believer
(2014)
Horizontalism
(2015)
Singles from Hard Believer
  1. "Looking Too Closely"
    Released: 8 July 2014

Hard Believer is the sixth studio album by English musician Fink. It was released globally by Ninja Tune's imprint R'COUP'D on 14 July 2014. [1]

Contents

Promotion

"Looking Too Closely" was released as the lead single to promote the album on 8 July 2014. [2] An official music video for the song, directed by Joffrey Jans and Kai Kurve (Wolf&Lamm Directors Duo), was released onto YouTube on 2 July 2014. [3]

On 7 October 2014, a music video for the second single, "Shakespeare", premiered on YouTube. [4] It was directed by Oliver Murray. [5] An extended play containing remixes of the song will be released digitally on 13 October 2014. [6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Fin Greenall, Tim Thornton and Guy Whittaker, except where noted

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hard Believer" 5:26
2."Green and the Blue" 6:06
3."White Flag" 5:04
4."Pilgrim"Fink, B. Mackichan7:03
5."Two Days Later" 5:41
6."Shakespeare" 6:19
7."Truth Begins" 5:05
8."Looking Too Closely" 5:11
9."Too Late" 4:16
10."Keep Falling"Fink, Ryan Keen4:30

Personnel

Fink
Additional musicians

Chart performance

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) [7] 37
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [8] 45
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [9] 61
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [10] 8
French Albums (SNEP) [11] 72
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [12] 25
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [13] 14
USA Heatseekers [14] 30

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